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Study: The Gulf Stream system may already be weakening. That’s not good. – Vox

‘…a new study in Nature Climate Change argues that the Atlantic overturning circulation isn’t just fluctuating up and down. The researchers, led by Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, created an index of the AMOC’s behavior going back centuries. They conclude the system is currently at its weakest level in 1,100 years, perhaps due to an influx of freshwater from Greenland’s melting ice sheet’

via Study: The Gulf Stream system may already be weakening. That’s not good. – Vox.